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GARDING ENGINE. No. 555,324. Patented Feb, 25, 1896.

Z Q l' UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN T. MEATS, OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE MASON MACHINE IVORKS, OF SAME PLACE.

CARDlNG-ENGINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 555,324, dated February 25, 1896.

Application led November 18, 1895. Serial No. 569,272. (No model.)

To all wwn it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN T. MEATS, of Taunton, county of Bristol, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Oarding- Engines, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to carding-engines, and has for its object the production of simple and readilyoperated means whereby the waste from the licker-in roll, having but little value, can be maintained separate from the card-cylinder waste, which is valuable enough to save and use.

Figure lis a partial longitudinal section of the feed end of a suficient portion of a carding-engine to be understood, with my invention applied thereto; and Fig. 2 is a transverse section thereof on the line looking toward the left, Fig. I.

The frame A, having suitable bearings for the card-cylinder C and licher-in roll L, the grids c and Z therefor, respectively, and the door or closure D at the feed end of the frame may be and are all as usual and well known in carding engines. The waste from the licher-in drops through the grid Z into the bottom of the frame and usually so mixes in with the card-cylinder waste,which passes through the grid c, that it is not worth while to attempt to utilize it, as the licker-in waste is of such very poor quality as to possess little or no value. On the other hand, the cylinder waste, if uncontaminated, is of value, as it may be used for other purposes, and by my invention I provide for separating the two kinds of waste, so that one may be removed independently of the other.

On the inner side of the frame, below and between the grids c and l, I secure stands u., having notches or recesses a at their upper ends for the journals b of a separator b, shown as a light door or gate hinged near its upper edge and bent rearwardly at lf2 to extend al-l most up to the grid c.

Normally the separator rests in full-line position, Fig. l, against the preferably inclined edges of the stands a and extending from one side of the frame to the other, as shown in Fig. 2, dividing the space below the lickerin and cylinder C into two compartments or chambers.

If desired, the lower edge of the gate b may be rolled as at b3 to eifectually close the bottom of the opening between the two compartments.

Referring now to Fig. l it will be seen that when the separator or gate is closed the lickerin waste will be collected in the chamber at the left, from which it may be removed from time to time through the door D.

The cylinder-waste will be collected in the chamber at the right of the gate, and is sep arated thereby from the lickerin waste. Then it is desired to remove this waste the licker-in waste is first cleaned out from its compartment, and by a suitable handle hX the separatorb is swung on its pivots up into dotted-line position, Fig. l, its lower edge being caught by pivoted gravity-catches d and retained in lifted position. The cylinderwaste can the-n be removed from its compare ment through the doorway at the end of the frame. 7 5

Brackets d bolted to the end of the frame inside support the catch es d, which are hooked as shown to engage the gate edge. Bypulling the catches toward the end of the frame the gate l) is released and falls back into operative position, forming a movable partition between the two compartments. Then the parvtition or gate is lifted the catches automatically engage and hold it up.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a carding-engine, the main frame, the licker-in roll and card-cylinder mounted thereon, and a movably-mounted separator within the frame, to separate the licker-in waste from the cylinder-waste, movement of said separator into inoperative position enabling the cylinder-waste to be removed, substantially as described. 95

2. In a carding-engine, the main frame, the licker-in roll and card-cylinder mounted thereon, grids therefor, a pivotally-mounted separator within the frame to normally divide it into a licker-in-waste compartment and a cylinder-waste compartment, below the respective grids, and a catch to engage the separator when turned to open communication separator when lifted t0 effect Communication between said compartments, snbstantiallyas between the waste-compartments normally described. separated thereby, substantially as described. 3. Ina-carding-engine, the mainframe, the In testimony whereof I have signed my 5 licher-'in roll and card-cylinder, a separator name to this specification in the presence of 15 pivotaylly mounted near its upper edge in the two subscribing witnesses.

frame below and between them, t0 separate JOHN T. MEATS. the cylinder-waste from the licher-in waste, YVitnesses: said separator extending from one to the other GEO. XV. GREGORY,

1o side of the frame, and a catch to engage said EMMA J. BENNETT. 

